This invaluable book consists of problems in nonrelativistic quantum mechanics together with their solutions. Most of the problems have been tested in class. The degree of difficulty varies from very simple to research-level. The problems illustrate certain aspects of quantum mechanics and enable the students to learn new concepts, as well as providing practice in problem solving.The book may be used as an adjunct to any of the numerous books on quantum mechanics and should provide students with a means of testing themselves on problems of varying degrees of difficulty. It will be useful to students in an introductory course if they attempt the simpler problems. The more difficult problems should prove challenging to graduate students and may enable them to enjoy problems at the forefront of quantum mechanics.

When a ship's surgeon during a routine episode of bloodletting noticed that the sailors' blood was brighter in the tropics than in the north, he hypothesized that heat was a form of energy. When a young boy tried to visualize how a beam of light would look like by riding alongside it at the same speed, he began thinking along lines that eventually changed our views of space and time. When a student caught hay fever and went to recover on Heligoland, he started a major revolution in physics. These are but just some of the stories covered in this entertaining book that deals with the history of physics from the end of the 19th-century to about 1930. "Quips, Quotes and Quanta" (2nd Edition) is unique in that it contains anecdotes on physicists creating new ideas. Often the thinking of the creators of what is now called modern physics is revealed through quotes. Thematic and biographical in nature, this book also includes many personal incidents. This second edition has been revised to include new material: a prologue, epilogue, glossary and chronology, and photograph's as well as additional quotes and anecdotes.

This invaluable book consists of problems in nonrelativistic quantum mechanics together with their solutions. Most of the problems have been tested in class. The degree of difficulty varies from very simple to research-level. The problems illustrate certain aspects of quantum mechanics and enable the students to learn new concepts, as well as providing practice in problem solving.The book may be used as an adjunct to any of the numerous books on quantum mechanics and should provide students with a means of testing themselves on problems of varying degrees of difficulty. It will be useful to students in an introductory course if they attempt the simpler problems. The more difficult problems should prove challenging to graduate students and may enable them to enjoy problems at the forefront of quantum mechanics.

Particle physics seems to be entering a new period of consoli- dation. In 1977 when the first summer institute on particles and fields was held at the Banff Center, the standard model of the electro-weak interaction was a promising model more or less con- firmed; today it seems quite well-confirmed. QCD was considered as probably the correct theory of strong interactions; today most theo- rists take it for granted. What seems to be lacking are computa- tional tools and strenuous experimental testing; the major ideas seem to exist. Thus, this is a particularly auspicious time for a review of the status of theoretical and experimental particle physics and field theory. The lectures collected in this volume were presented from August 16 to August 27, 1981 at the Banff Center in Banff, Canada. The unifying theme was gauge fields and the topics covered dealt with electro-weak interactions, Q.C.D., sub-quarks and unified theories. The format of the Institute was as follows: thirteen lecture series of two to four hours each given by S. Brodsky, D. Bryman, M. Chen, S. Coleman, M. Creutz, H. Harari, J. Iliopoulos, C.H. Llewellyn- Smith, P. Lepage, D. Perkins and L. Susskind. In addition there were nine seminars (one hour each) given by G. Bodwin, G. Bunce, M.

When after 243 years in cryogenic suspension, multi-billionaire, Robert de Groot awakes to a world in which immortality is his for the taking he has to decide. Does he want a life of eternal youth, that will go on indefinitely? Can he trust the beautiful immortal Yvonne or the scheming mortal, JJ Tyrone? Is this world without poverty or war really the Eden it appears to be? Something seems missing, but what? Why has mankind with all the technological advances not strived to reach the stars? With his tremendous wealth, Robert pursues these questions. He finds himself an outsider, never able to be a part of the bored, immortal elite, nor a part of the more alive, ordinary mortals.

Harl Novak, a PH.D. student of history discovers a puzzling sentence in the preamble to a treaty. Although he is under time pressure to finish he tries to unravel the meaning of this enigmatic sentence. In the process he almost loses his love and his chance for an academic career while discovering a plot that he traces back to the CIA.

An eclectic collection of poetry to entertain, amuse, annoy and elate. If you are interested in poetry at all there should be something for you in this collection.

When Leonora Popescu witnesses the 1940 Dorohoi massacre while fleeing with her two children from the Soviets, her travail has just started. Although raised in a well-to-do home, she needs all the strength she has to survive and keep her children fed. Her husband, Peter, survives Stalingrad by being wounded. After he recovers they are again separated when he is sent back to the eastern front. Leonora continues to move west to avoid falling into Soviet hands. Driven by a need to stay faithful to her marriage vows, she spurns chances for an easier life. This makes her reunion with Peter, after the war, a bitter experience since he is living with a woman that saved his life. The characters, though fictitious, are based on composites of real people. The history is correct and, although the details are freely invented, the tank battles and other military events are real.

In a world emerging from nuclear winter, Henry Barton sets out to find other humans. He survived in a cabin in northern Alberta near Swan Hills, sustained by the memory of his wife, who encouraged him. On his search for others he meets Nestor, who is reluctant to accompany him south toward civilization. Later he meets Wayne, half mad after the loss of his wife. When Henry reaches the town of Barrhead, he meets two women and a man who view him as their savior. He goes onto Edmonton where he loses his wife when he finally realizes that she is dead. Returning to Swan Hills he discovers why Nestor was reluctant to meet other people. Now Henry must decide how to cope with the others who depend on him.

From adventure to fantasy to romance, the reader encounters all the following: a man having to deal with immortality, another with a chance for redemption while standing on the gallows, a woman finding new meaning in life, two Newfoundlanders who change the fashion world, an Indian boy fleeing from a residential school, and many more.